Illusion et réalité dans Madame Bovary et L’Éducation sentimentale de Gustave Flaubert
Illusion and Reality in Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary and Sentimental Education

Summary/Abstract: Fictional writing is a literary art that combines, by different processes, illusion to reality. Gustave Flaubert is part of the realistic trend. While opting for the novel, the first particularity of which is to tell an imaginary story, the novelist relies on documentation in order to treat reality – true facts – objectively. Madame Bovary and Sentimental Education respectively are novels of learning and morals in which the author examines and describes the salient facts of his time objectively. Alongside the collective history of an era marked by the depravity of manners whose history of a whole generation.

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